This is how my brain operated when I was 18. "Oh it's so easy to live completely alone in the wild with basically nothing, why don't homeless people just build a house from some trees and rock?"
It's what led my sheltered-ass brain to going full-on AnCap, every Ayn Rand book read, all friends alienated, total contempt for the poor before I had ever worked a job in my life.
That, and I'm one of the fucking idiots who played Bioshock and somehow thought "Oh, it only failed because Andrew Ryan betrayed his own Free Market Principles, it only failed because it wasn't Free Market Enough."
I outgrew it all in less than a year when I realized universal healthcare was just objectively superior by every metric and started realizing corporations were destroying everything with or without oversight, but then I was a feckless South Park Lib until Trump won and my faith in this shithole crumbled overnight.
And then I saw that fucking Harry Potter jpeg explaining the shortcomings of Liberalism and watched a Richard Wolff video.
Sorry for the backstory but I actually feel like a shit ton of recently-radicalized people have gone down this embarrassing-ass road or something similar to it. And remembering what we used to believe before we read Marx or saw a shitty jpeg or whatever can't hurt when talking to people who are still there. Some people are primed and ready, and just need the definition of Socialism explained to them properly once.
Find a tree. Punch a tree. Make a wooden pickaxe. Mine some stone. Make a furnace. Guys, it's so easy.
This is how my brain operated when I was 18. "Oh it's so easy to live completely alone in the wild with basically nothing, why don't homeless people just build a house from some trees and rock?"
It's what led my sheltered-ass brain to going full-on AnCap, every Ayn Rand book read, all friends alienated, total contempt for the poor before I had ever worked a job in my life.
That, and I'm one of the fucking idiots who played Bioshock and somehow thought "Oh, it only failed because Andrew Ryan betrayed his own Free Market Principles, it only failed because it wasn't Free Market Enough."
I outgrew it all in less than a year when I realized universal healthcare was just objectively superior by every metric and started realizing corporations were destroying everything with or without oversight, but then I was a feckless South Park Lib until Trump won and my faith in this shithole crumbled overnight.
And then I saw that fucking Harry Potter jpeg explaining the shortcomings of Liberalism and watched a Richard Wolff video.
Sorry for the backstory but I actually feel like a shit ton of recently-radicalized people have gone down this embarrassing-ass road or something similar to it. And remembering what we used to believe before we read Marx or saw a shitty jpeg or whatever can't hurt when talking to people who are still there. Some people are primed and ready, and just need the definition of Socialism explained to them properly once.
am high, done ranting
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wait this wasn't a copypasta? :surprised-pika:
i know right?
welp, it is now.
Just bring five sticks and a rock to the workbench at Nook's Cranny. How could you possibly screw this up?